Really nice article. It is great to see development related tutorials from Sony Ericsson lately.
But I would like to ask about font scaling. I myself am visually impaired since birth (but still a software developer) and I know many people who wish to use Android devices but cannot do that comfortably because there is no font scaling built into the core of Android. This is also bad for people over 50 who do not have a perfect vision anymore. There is a 2 years old feature request on Android issue tracker, but it seems abandoned by developers: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4547 Of course, each developer can make the fonts scalable, but they do so not often. The worst is that the basic phone functions (menu, contacts, SMS, mail) have too tiny texts. I myself am looking forward to buy SonyEricsson Neo, but I am afraid I won't be able to use it comfortably, I need a little bit bigger fonts everywhere and I would like avoid rooting the device just to do some hacky font replacement which would look ugly anyway. So if someone could bring Sony Ericsson's attention and ask them to develop more accessible software (just a basic home screen, contacts, SMS, menus), I guess, Sony Ericsson would get buyers from all the >50 old people range + some bunch of people with impaired vision. I promise you, Sony Ericsson: on the day you develop and release some software update which allows to scale fonts bigger on a Sony Ericsson Neo phone, I'll buy it. For now I'll just read articles about Android development and use SDK/VirtualBox Android emulators. Please, Sony Ericsson (and other developers, too), give a helping hand to visually impaired and not-so-young people. Good luck to all developers, Martin and some other visually impaired people. On 27 Jūn., 12:13, Johan Abramsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > This article does, of course, apply to any android phone. > Since we updated the blog post with a link to tis article the link to > the blog post has changed. The new link is here, > > http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/wp/2011/06/27/how-to-scale-images-for-y... > > We apologize for any inconviniance. > Kind regards > /Johan > > On Jun 22, 10:07 am, Johan Abramsson > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Hard to get images scaled correctly for your application? Are your > > images too large and causing memory problems? Or are they scaled > > incorrectly with a poor user experience as a result? > > To find a good solution for this, we asked Andreas Agvard from the > >SonyEricssonsoftware department to help shed some light on this > > topic. > > > More data and a good sample project are found > > here:http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/wp/2011/06/13/how-to-scale-images-for-y... > > > Comments and question ? Please direct them to this news thread. > > Kind regards > > /Johan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
